Not only Smriti Irani, these lawmakers have also taken oath in Sanskrit

Union Minister Smriti Irani and BJP President Amit Shah took oath as members of Rajya Sabha today. Mrs Irani drew attention of the house as she took her pledge in Sanskrit. Said to be the language of Gods (dev-Bhasha), Sanskrit is included in India’s Constitution in a list of the country’s 22 official languages. However, it largely remains unused as it’s difficult for a common man to use the language owing to its sophisticated (even for a Hindi speaker) vocabulary. There is no denying that most of the modern Indo-Aryan languages have either evolved from Sanskrit or they have had significant grammatical and vocabulary influence from the classical language.

The BJP led government at Centre is going extra-mile to promote Sanskrit and Hindi. Most of its schemes are are named in Sankritised Hindi – Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, Swachh Bharat, Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, Atal Pension Yojana and so on. Even the acronyms like MUDRA (Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency) are Sanskrit.